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Community Living North Halton celebrates opening of new location 4 PAGES HEALTH CARE Look inside today's section for news and views from the automotive world 8 PAGES WHEELS.CA www.theIFP.ca Thursday, July 21, 2011 Halton Hills' award-winning newspaper serving Acton & Georgetown 56 Pages 50 Cents (+HST) A purr-fect way to spend a Sunday afternoon The Kit Cat Club held its first Canadian Cat Association-affiliated championship and household pet cat show Sunday at the Acton Curling Club, attracting 100 frisky felines. (Left) Emily Ross, 6, of Quebec City gives one-year-old Bengal `Diego' a scratch. (Middle) An indignant `Balsam', a six-year-old Pixie-Bob wasn't happy about posing for a photo. (Right) Anya Fisekovic, of Burlington, holds one-year-old short hair Balinese `Rio', who has his roots in Acton with local breeder Sandra Runnals-Lichty. Photos by Jon Borgstrom No end in sight to scorching heat wave Area residents have been baking during the current heat wave but we might not be fully cooked yet. There appears to be no end in sight to the scorching heat southern Ontario has experienced this week and the heat alert Halton Region issued Monday could extend for several more days. "We're being hit by double whammies here," says David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada. "The heat is high and the humidity is too-- but where is the precipitation?" Temperatures have been in the 30C range all week, with today set to break records with a high of 38C, feeling more like the mid- to high 40s with the humidex reading. The mercury will drop toward the weekend, but only slightly, hovering around 30C. "We're clearly going to break records on individual days," says Phillips. He emphasizes that these temperatures are all in the shade and that they are 6 or 7 degrees higher under the sun, without even accounting for the humidex. See HOT, pg. 5 REFINANCING? PURCHASING? SILHOUETTE® SHADINGS NOW HAVE UP TO 88% ULTRAVIOLET PROTECTION! PAINT · WALLPAPER · LIGHTING · HOME DECOR R GEORGETOWN MARKETPLACE MALL 905-877-4193 93 3 YR. VARIABLE CALL FOR DETAILS. 2.2% BOB WOODS, Broker FSCO #10259 Division of 1490845 Ont. Ltd. (905) 877-1490 360 Guelph St., Georgetown